22 Feb
2004
22 Feb
'04
1:46 a.m.
Pete Bessman wrote:
Which turns out to be complete BS. Linux sampler is alive and you just
wrote the project off because you couldn't be bothered doing a small
amount of research.
At Sun, 22 Feb 2004 12:42:31 +0900,
Patrick Shirkey wrote:
Actually I completely understand where you are coming from. You have
invested a lot of energy into getting specimen out the door. To a degree
your your ethos is intrinsically wound into it's existence.
The thing is your attitude is of leaning towards the I'm sooooo cool
because I wrote my own app persuasion. Drop the hate and we can all move on.
You've obviously got a lot of energy to give. It's how you choose to
channel it that counts.
Nice attitude. While this ethic is understandable
it doesn't help
progressions very much.
^^^^^^^^^^^^
The progressions of what? My attitude may be *indirectly* detrimental
to Linux Sampler (which I doubt, because Specimen is the first program
above 500 lines I've ever written; I would just hinder those guys).
It is _not_ detrimental to the Linux Audio Scene, and it is beneficial
to Specimen. And I daresay that by devoting myself to Specimen I am
improving the LAS, but perhaps I'm an egomaniac.
If what I'm doing does hurt LinuxSampler (yeah, right...), I can't say
I feel any remorse. If that makes me a jerk in your eyes, so be it.
Maybe now you've had a couple of days to think
rationally about it you have changed your mind anyway.
Apart from Evil Laughter(TM), which I thought was funny, I couldn't
see one thing irrational about my statement. The gist of it was "It
makes more sense to improve a living project than to have maintainers
of said project contribute to the creation of what is currently a
castle in the sky." Asking me to pool my efforts with SimSam's author
makes sense to me(until you account for the fact that I don't know QT
and hate C++, hence Specimen), but I don't see why I should drop my
project and work on LinuxSampler.
NO one asked you to drop anything. Why are you so defensive? I was
merely suggesting you could do a lot of good by contributing some of
your energy to a project which is a very good idea.
And if you took offense to my intent to whore their
code, remember
that this is a two way street and they can just as easily (and I
encourage it) whore my code. The absolute number one reason I started
writing Specimen was because I couldn't find anything that did what I
wanted already (and at the time I thought SimSam was dead, plus the
aforementioned reasons for not working on that). Whatever produces
the best tool for the job is fine by me. Naturally I want that to be
my tool, and I obviously think it will or else I wouldn't be doing
this, but it's not like my opinion of LinuxSampler is anything but my
honest-to-dog pragmatic evaluation.
We are not all born equal. Personally I'm happy if my tool does what I
need it to do. If other people have success with it too then bonus.
Unless that person is my girlfriend. Than I'm totally willing to be the
pleasure device...
P.P.S. Mark: I'm amazed that what I thought was
merely an expression
of a negative opinion is considered "going off." Puh-lease.
Well now you have so if you go any further take a packed lunch ok.
--
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Http://www.boosthardware.com
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